Guidelines detail the resource room program for children with educational disability. Aspects covered include administration, the teacher, placement, class organization, and physical classroom needs. (JD)

Information is provided concerning state mental health services in Oregon, including estimates of need and organization of the Mental Health Division. Major thrusts of the 1969-71 budget are detailed as are administrative considerations in budget preparation. Also covered are hospitals for the mentally ill, hospitals for the mentally retarded,…

This index to materials received by the Department of the Interior in late 1967 and early 1968 contains 838 abstracts of technical articles, books, conference proceedings, directories, documents, reports, speeches, yearbooks, and bibliographies of outdoor recreation literature. Materials are arranged under 5 subject categories: (1) outdoor…

The population for the study consisted of the educational directors of The Museum of Modern Art, The Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Baltimore Museum of Art, and The Carnegie Museum of Art, and 259 participants in the museum programs for amateurs in art. Nine propositions were used to give information on the structure of the programs. An…

The purpose of this study is to provide an assessment of the Follow Through organization and its major components in order to identify problems in functioning and to suggest possible organizational changes that would lead to improved functioning. Each of the major components of Follow Through - the Follow Through Office, the sponsors, local…

The document presents a conceptual framework and program plan for R&D in career education prepared for the National Institute of Education, based on a fundamental premise that R&D requires a focus on operationally definable problems. The focus suggested is the responsiveness of career education to the problems experienced by individuals as they…

The report describes the development of a project which produced an integrated set of materials on formative evaluation that are appropriate for use in graduate training, research and development settings, and public school personnel use. The objectives of the project were: (1) to identify relevant data sources for formative evaluation and to…

This paper summarizes the "Affirmative Action" training of unskilled minorities for jobs as firemen. The various training approaches undertaken are discussed; some were more successful than others. Hopefully, the information provided in this report can be used by other fire departments as a basis for developing their own minority "Affirmative…

The purposes of the proposed system are to provide a standard operating procedure for a systematic and effective handling of project-type study items as differentiated from informational-type items; to assign definite singular responsibility for projects; to suggest specific sequential steps to be taken in the preparation of the project report;…

This document gives detailed instructions for filling out application forms for child advocacy demonstration projects. Proposals for pilot projects to be operated within school neighborhoods may be submitted by institutions, agencies, or consortiums to the Bureau of Education for the Handicapped and the National Bureau of Mental Health. The major…

This report presents the results of a study to design the appropriate evaluation system needed at the Department of Labor for decentralized operation of a comprehensive manpower program. It covers not only the priority evaluations needed and the methods of performing them, but also changes required in planning, reporting, and administration in…

This is the second annual report concerning a multiple-option design for a cooperative education program used by a consortium of five California community colleges. (For the first annual report, see ED 058 880.) The effectiveness of the program is assessed by analyzing 15 areas such as retention, income, employer attitudes, cost effectiveness, and…

Fifty-one selected readings on outdoor education from the "Journal of Outdoor Education," a publication of Northern Illinois University, are presented in this book. The articles deal with environmental education and such areas of outdoor education as its philosophy, history, administration, curriculum, and teaching. Some of the articles pertain to…

The purpose of this assessment instrument is to provide a functional tool that allows for: (1) self-study and self-evaluation of the total secondary school physical education program; (2) identification of problem areas; and (3) eventual improvement of the secondary school physical education program. Criteria items are organized under four program…

Needss asessment is here to stay as shools wishing to apply for grants under the competitive titles of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), must now justify their requests. However, quality assessment data cannot be obtained in the majority of school districts nationally without federal or state budgetary allocations for Local…